The Good Food Institute Europe is looking for a Communications Assistant to accelerate our progress throughout Europe in positioning alternative proteins as a solution to climate, animal welfare and health challenges.
Background to the role
Helping people, animals and the planet by supporting and enabling our external communications work in Europe
The Good Food Institute Europe (GFI Europe) is at the forefront of the movement to transform meat production in order to solve some of the world’s biggest problems, from climate change and global hunger, to antibiotic resistance and animal suffering.
We work with scientists, businesses and policymakers to make plant-based and cultivated meat (grown directly from cells) delicious, affordable and accessible. Please check out the rest of our website, our 2023 Year in Review and our 2023 Europe Highlights blog post to find out more about who we are and what we do.
We are at an exciting stage in our growth and are looking for a Communications Assistant to accelerate our progress throughout Europe in positioning alternative proteins as a solution to climate, animal welfare and health challenges.
How you will make a difference
You will support the Communications team and wider programmatic teams on a wide range of areas. Reporting to the Head of Communications, you will:
- Create written and visual content for communications channels such as our social media, newsletter, website, resources and media engagement work.
- Monitor references to alternative proteins and related subjects in the press and on social media across Europe, and share relevant updates with the wider team.
- Triage and respond to incoming media requests, and log such interactions in our CRM database and on collaborative platforms such as Asana.
- Perform maintenance activities for our multi-language website, including adding new content and updating existing pages.
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of our communications activities, media engagement work, social media channels, website and newsletter.
- Build and maintain lists of journalists using our public relations management platform.
- Conduct research to support a wide range of communications projects, from searching for event venues to generating profiles of key media outlets in a range of countries.
- Assist with the procurement, contracting and relationship management of service providers such as PR agencies and translators.
- Help to keep a calendar of GFI Europe’s communications activities up to date.
- Identify gaps in the documentation of our processes and procedures, and help to fill them by drafting standard operating procedures (SOPs) and other support documents.
- Perform other tasks as required as a member of our team.
Benefits and the fine print
- Terms of employment: Full-time (flexible hours), permanent. Requests for part-time arrangements can be considered (minimum 30 hours per week).
- Location: We can consider applicants in any of the following countries where we can currently employ people: Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK.This is a remote role, and you will be able to work from home, or anywhere you choose. We are happy to consider supporting costs for co-working to enable you to work from an office if you wish. The whole GFI Europe team aims to get together in person approximately twice per year for around 3-5 days at a time. Travel costs will be covered by GFI Europe within our travel policy.
- Salary and benefits: The salary and benefits package for all of our roles are researched and benchmarked based on similar nonprofit roles in the country/location of hire. Due to capacity, we cannot complete that research for every country in advance, but approximate indicative ranges (total annual amounts received in gross salary plus benefits including home-working allowance) are likely to be:
- €2,120-€2,250 / month. This range is based on a hire in France and will be adjusted if hired elsewhere in Europe.
- Right-to-work requirements: The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permission to work in the country where they are based, and to be able to travel within the EU.
Application Deadline: 28 April 2024, 11.59pm CEST. We will get back to all candidates after that date, no matter the outcome of their application. You should expect to hear back from us within about a week of the deadline.